Fall Happenings 2019

The summer has blown by for me. Work was busier than ever what with moving offices, setting up for fall quarter, and scaling up a peer mentor program at my institution. Outside of work, I dreamed of green places and tried to incorporate more relaxation and fiber into my life to manage anxiety and acid reflux with mixed results.

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Writing Exercises: Beginnings and Repetition (Fiction)

Recently, I was digging through my old teaching and graduate school papers in an attempt to purge and condense into something a bit more useful than several boxes and files of random completed assignments and saved teaching materials recently, and I rediscovered an exercise I created for one of my graduate classes as a teaching demo. Since I made the long ago promise that this blog might have creative writing prompts in it and have never yet kept that promise, here you go!

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